The people of Frankfurt consider the lack of apartments to be the biggest problem in the city.

The topic came first in the city administration's most recent survey of citizens assessing their own living environment.

61 percent ticked that the housing supply was bad or very bad.

However, this is an abstract realization.

At the same time, the respondents largely agreed with their own housing situation.

70 percent said they were very or at least fairly satisfied.

This not only applies to the size and furnishings of one's own apartment, but also to the price/performance ratio: 57 percent ticked this part of the survey and said they were satisfied.

Manfred Koehler

Head of department of the Rhein-Main editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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However, the burden is sometimes quite high.

While households with a monthly net income of 5500 euros and more spend only 22 percent on rent or home ownership, in the lowest income group, households with less than 1700 euros net per month, it is slightly more than half.

Transport policy badly rated

When asked to assess their own living environment, the lack of parking spaces came in second place, right after the situation on the housing market.

56 percent described the parking offer as bad or very bad.

The car is still the most important means of transport in Frankfurt: 64 percent use it daily or at least several times a month.

Trains and buses account for 52 percent, bicycles including e-bikes for 51 percent.

While rail and bus transport gets good marks, drivers punish traffic policy: 41 percent describe the traffic management as bad or very bad, while only half as many as good, and the parking space in the city center is even rated as bad by 68 percent and by only 13 percent described it as good.

Apart from the lack of housing and parking spaces, the people of Frankfurt are generally satisfied with their living environment.

This also applies to cleanliness, which was rated as good by more participants in the survey than as bad.

All in all, 35 percent said the quality of life in Frankfurt had improved over the past five years, while only 26 percent said it had gotten worse.

7,400 Frankfurt residents took part in the survey in early summer last year.